code push shortly

[denise]

We'll be beginning a code push in about 15-20 minutes. Please put up your seat backs and return your tray tables to the full and upright locked position. We'll update this entry when we're done!

(2:40AM EST: As always, the prep turns out to be more involved than we predicted. We'll hopefully be starting soon.)

3:10AM EST: And, we're done! Please report any issues here or to Support.

Comments

[deborah]

Even if it's something silly, it's something they'd like to show up, right?

In the suggestions posts, many people said they don't want their display name to appear. I think it's just use really inconsistently across the user base; for a long time it was exposed pretty much nowhere, so people don't have any particular standard for how it gets used.

(that being said, I think it's available to S2, so a style could be written which would expose display names beneath userpics.)

if they use the description field for accessibility reasons, it's usually as an identification of emotion the icon represents

This is actually not the best way to use the description field. The idea of that field is that many people can see the image, and they have certain information available to them -- so let's use the description field to make that information available to everyone.

For example, I could have an icon of Kermit the frog making a disgruntled face. If I just said "disgruntled" in the description field, then people who can see the images would still get the extra information of knowing that it's Kermit the frog, but people who can't see the images would be missing that information. But if my description is "Kermit the frog, disgruntled face" the people who don't see the image know exactly what the icon is of, and get all of the extra connotations available to people who do see the image.

After all, there are different connotations to Kermit the frog making a disgruntled face, Bruce Springsteen making a disgruntled face, Indira Gandhi making a disgruntled face, or a stick figure of a grumpy person. We'd like to make sure that all of those connotations are available to everyone using the site.